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EMC ScaleIO: Software-only server-based storage area network (SAN) that converges storage and compute resources to form a single-layer, enterprise-grade storage product. ScaleIO storage is elastic and delivers linearly scalable performance. Its scale-out server SAN architecture can grow from a few to thousands of servers.

Scalability

Scale out from a few to thousands of servers for both storage and compute—from just a couple of terabytes to multiple petabytes.

Elasticity

Expand or shrink capacity or performance simply, easily, and nondisruptively on demand, without capacity planning or data migration. Grow in small or large increments and pay as you grow, running on any server and with any storage media.

Performance

Take advantage of massively parallel I/O processing, with all servers participating and sharing I/O loads. By adding servers, you can increase capacity and processing power linearly, leveraging fast parallel rebuild and rebalance without interruption to I/O.

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EMC ScaleIO is a software-only server-based storage area network (SAN) that converges storage and compute resources to form a single-layer, enterprise-grade storage product. ScaleIO storage is elastic and delivers linear scalable performance. Its scale-out server SAN architecture can grow from a few to thousands of servers.

Scalability and Performance

Breaking traditional barriers of storage scalability, ScaleIO scales out to hundreds and thousands of nodes. The parallel architecture and distributed volume layout deliver a massively parallel system that deliver I/O operations through a distributed system. As a result, performance can scale linearly with the number of application servers and disks.

We’ve carefully designed and implemented ScaleIO software components so as to consume minimal computing resources.

Elasticity and Resilience

With ScaleIO, any administrator can add, move, or remove servers and capacity on demand during I/O operations. The software responds automatically to any infrastructure change and rebalances data accordingly across the grid nondisruptively.

Platform Agnosticism

ScaleIO natively supports all leading Linux distributions and hypervisors. It works agnostically with any solid-state drive (SSD) or hard disk drive (HDD) regardless of type, model, or speed.

View a case study of the power and flexibility of ScaleIO converged infrastructure in an Oracle Database deployment

EMC ScaleIO’s rich set of features

Feature

How It Works

Thin Provisioning

Create volumes with on-demand thin provisioning to Improve storage efficiency and setup time

RAM Read Cache

Enable read caching using the RAM from SDS servers

Interoperability

Use the VMware vSphere and OpenStack Cinder / Nova plugins to utilize ScaleIO with these technologies

Fault Sets

Define a group of SDSs that are likely to go down to ensure data is mirrored on another group of SDSs

REST API

Expose monitoring and provisioning information via a REST interface

Scale-out architecture

Leverage software-only architecture that can scale from a few to thousands of servers and from a few terabytes to multiple petabytes

Two-copy “mesh” mirroring

Gain high availability with no single points of failure or potential bottlenecks

Auto-rebuild

Take advantage of self-healing system so you can auto-recover data upon failure

Auto-rebalance

Add, move, or remove nodes or disks “on the fly” to automatically rebalance data across the entire system

Protection domains

Control data protection and enhance fault recovery

Storage pools

Enable performance and capacity tiering

Bandwidth/IOPs limiter

Throttle application bandwidth limits to control resource allocation for designated quality of service (QoS)

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